November 18
GUEST: Anas Amireh, Palestinian American activist and organizer of the Coalition to Boycott Duty Free Americas, talks about how this US company is funding the settler movement, which is forcing Palestinians from their homes and land in the West Bank.
Middlemen sell Jerusalem homes to settlers
Anas reminded us of the battle raging in America's heartland. Do citizens have a right to boycott a country that routinely violates human rights? The conflict is for the soul of the United States, since our country arms, funds, and protects apartheid Israel. Moreover, Israel is more than a country. It is America's most important colony, willing to do whatever the empire needs to have done, both in the Middle East and in the rest of the world.
Israel's connection to the US is a two way street. Israeli operatives in our government have had an outsized role in instigating our wars of empire. For example, our invasion of Iraq was orchestrated by the following list of Israeli plants working in key areas of our government:
- Richard N. Perle, member of the Defense Policy Board, advisor to the Pentagon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs
- Paul Wolfowitz, protege of Richard Perle and Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Dov S. Zakheim, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
- Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense, member of PNAC who was mentored by Henry Kissinger
- John Bolton, U.S. National Security Advisor
- John Hannah, vice president’s Office for National Security Affairs
- Elliott Abrams, foreign policy adviser for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump
How is it that any of these right wing Zionists, many with dual citizenships, are allowed to influence America's strategic decisions about war and peace? Of course, they are all extreme hawks who have spent their lives pushing for the empire's endless wars abroad. But what country benefits from the destruction of the Middle East? Certainly not the United States. All these influential Zionist have quite openly advanced Israel's interests at the expense of America. Are these men traitors to the United States - a person who commits treason by betraying his or her country?
Meanwhile, Anas is planning the boycott of Duty Free Americas, the US company that shovels million to the illegal settlers to help them steal land from Palestinians in the West Bank. It is a tough fight because the Israeli Lobby has the money and the influence to make such campaigns extremely difficult.
Will there ever be a day when ordinary citizens stand up against the Israel Lobby? When we as citizens of the US demand that Israeli war hawks get their icy fingers off the levers of power? Zionist influence has caused a catastrophe in the Middle East. Israeli agents in our government should be purged. They have cost the American public trillions of dollars, while destroying the lives of so many of our nation's young.
